incontrollable
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of incontrollable
First recorded in 1590–1600; in- 3 + controllable ( def. )
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Dick Fuld is reading his opening statement which can be found in full here, declaring that his bank's demise was caused by "incontrollable market forces" and "incorrect rumours" about its financial position.
From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 2010
And as I gazed at her, forgetting everything in the world, but my incontrollable thirst for herself, she sighed, and she said with compassion: Poor boy!
From The Substance of a Dream by Bain, F. W. (Francis William)
The police had already pushed into the centre with their ponderous omnipotence, and even as they did so, Rupert Grant sprang forward with his incontrollable and intolerable secret.
From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It had hurt her cruelly, and it was but the instinctive rebellion of one in sudden and incontrollable pain that had made her tear the photograph.
From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
If such a passion as jealousy seizes him, it will swell into a well-nigh incontrollable flood.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)
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